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Apollonis (/ ˌ æ p ə ˈ l oʊ n ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀπoλλωνίς means "of Apollo") [citation needed] was one of the three younger Mousai Apollonides (Muses) in Greek mythology and daughters of Apollo, [1] who were worshipped in Delphi where the Temple of Apollo and the Oracle were located.
Thalia, Muse of comedy, holding a comic mask (detail from the "Muses Sarcophagus") Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon (1680) by Claude Lorrain. According to Hesiod's Theogony (seventh century BC), they were daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, and Mnemosyne, Titan goddess of memory. Hesiod in Theogony narrates that the Muses brought to ...
Mese was the Muse of the middle cord of the seven noted lyre and represented one of the three strings of the said popular Greek musical instrument. [1] [2] [3] These three muses were comparable to the original three, Aoide, Melete, and Mneme. Alternatively, they were Cephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, which portrayed them as the daughters of ...
She was the muse of voice and song. She lends her name to the moon Jupiter XLI, also called Aoede, which orbits the planet Jupiter. References.
A Titaness, Mnemosyne is the daughter of Uranus and Gaia. [3] Mnemosyne became the mother of the nine Muses, fathered by her nephew, Zeus: Calliope (epic poetry) Clio (history) Euterpe (music and lyric poetry) Erato (love poetry) Melpomene (tragedy) Polyhymnia (hymns) Terpsichore (dance) Thalia (comedy) Urania (astronomy)
"She was my muse," Smith, 54, says during a joint interview with Adams, ... The couple share one child: 25-year-old daughter Harley Quinn Smith, who was born two months after her parents wed.
According to Cicero's De Natura Deorum ("On the Nature of the Gods"), "As to the Muses, there were at first four—Thelxiope, Aœde, Arche, and Melete—daughters of the second Jupiter." Cicero identifies the main nine muses as "daughters of the third Jupiter and Mnemosyne." [4]
Erin Keane's mother ran away from home at 13 and married two years later. In "Runaway," Keane unearths her parents' past and the myths that shaped them.